If you need a good scare and don’t want to pay for it, today is your lucky day! If you are looking for something a little exciting and FREE in electronic format, check out some great ghost stories written by women. Matilda, Mary Shelley You’ve probably heard of Mary Shelley’s most famous novel, Frankenstein. She …
Short Read Buy on Amazon I have been wanting to read Passing, by Nella Larsen, ever since I discovered it existed, at least 20 years. I think I kind of put it off because I thought it was going to be really sad and heavy: that the protagonist, the person who is “passing” plays out …
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Ron Rash’s Short Stories I recently started reading Ron Rash’s short stories about western North Carolina, and I was recently drawn to them because of the unique perspective they convey. Rash manages to make the reader feel the harshness of the Smoky Mountain region without allowing it to irrevocably mark all of his characters. Not …
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The Handmaid’s Tale: The Graphic Novel By Margaret Atwood Art & Adaptation by Renee Nault I don’t know what I think about this trend of books being reproduced, or I should say, “reinterpreted” in graphic form. In a way, it seems like “cheating” to me, but really, is there any such thing as cheating …
New American Gothic Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, and other works join the classics by Hawthorne and Poe. Stephen King also mentions her work as an important inspiration for him. Buy on Amazon I think it’s kind of a shame that all I’ve really …
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